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The Labour MP said: “This has been a big national scandal. Theresa May has been forced to apologise and do what she can to help these people.

“I have been talking to them about how it has affected them.

“There have been some heartbreaking stories – a man in his late 60s in tears, a woman who has been denied a passport whose children were born here.

“People should be treated better than this. They are people who have lived here nearly all their lives, worked, contributed, paid their taxes, settled, built families and for them to be treated like this is shameful.”

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Mr Ashworth said he would take up the cases he had been aware of and lobby the Government on behalf of them.

Connie Christie, 60, came to Leicester from Jamaica in 1967 with her mother and father.

She went to the city’s Mayfield Junior School, worked in the catering industry, and raised two children who are now grown up.